Showing posts with label JFK. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

DR STRANGELOVE CRAICS SHANNON AIRPORT







Business is bloody bad, said one Wall Street investor, and the Industrial War Complex is the only place in the US and the City of London, where we can now make money, said another British banker, who requested anonymity.They also said that Kennedy and the U.S. was wrong, not to have gone to nuclear war with Russia, during the Cuban Missile Crises.


"JFK should have nuked Russia. It would have been interesting to see who would have survived. The World is over populated We should listen to the generals, who advocate a first strike," said another, who also requested anonymity.


They continued, saying, that Russia has a hypersonic missile delivery system, capable of penetrating US defence systems, delivering nuclear warheads and other numerous nuclear submarines while monitoring the U.S.


"The Russians are the ones who want war. We have to strike before they hit us. I say nuke 'em before they nuke us!" one exclaimed. Another neo-conservative, retired General, said war is too important to be left to politicians, "They have neither the time, training or the inclination for strategic thought. And the It's high time for a Pentagon coup to take over the U.S. government, from the black man in the White House and go to war."


Before we attack, the general, said the U.S. should have detailed plans for a post war scenario and was rambling on about the famous Dr.Strangelove plan, for post-nuclear war survival, involving living underground with a 20:1, female-to-male ratio.


"Why the hell are you people laughing at Dr. Strangelove and General Buck Turgidson, they make total sense to me. And I know Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld privately agree with me."


So what the hell, has all this got to do with Ireland, I hear you ask? Well what's above, is roughly how it all started, and the story finishes for me in Ireland, where two Irishmen, were minding their own business, cutting turf in a EU bog illegally, outside Tralee coincidentally enough, and the end went something along these lines, from what I heard! Now there's a few who still talk blarney so don't blame, I can't vouch for every detail of this story, as communications are down.


The Nuking of Shannon Airport


"Jaysus Seaneen, will you look at that !"

"What John Joe,"says Sean

Will ya look at that mushroom cloud over Shannon. Do ya see that mushroom cloud over there at Shannon Airport?

"Bejasus I do," says John Joe, "That must be one of them big magic mushrooms, that they've been on about."


"Right enough, I can taste something strange in my mouth and it feels like my body is slippin' away from me," says Sean


"Fuck it, Sean, I can feel it too, its like I'm floatin,' Holy fuck!."



Sean, a wee while later, "John Joe I see flower circles all over the bog and the turf is movin' with that breeze, that's coming in waves, over from Shannon, everything is movin. Can you see all them sods of turf flyin' around?'


My eyes are fucked Sean, everything is slow, I can't see right, when I look left and right everything is in slow motion and I feel feckin cat," says John Joe


Fuck me ! "My skin is comin' away in my hands when I touch my face, John Joe."



"I feel like I'm in the DTs after a feed of porter." These were reportedly, to be John Joe's last words.


Well that was the good part and I won't upset any sensitive souls with what followed but it wasn't nice at all, at all.


Well, that's roughly how it all ended for several million people in Ireland, except for a few Connemara people and myself, as I was luckily visiting, when the prevailing west winds from the Atlantic, blew the mushroom cloud all over Ireland, including the north.


Communication were down in Ireland after the event, so details were sketchy. The mushroom cloud drifted all the way over to the east coast to Dublin and up North, where it is reported, that every single Orangeman was nuked. Willie Frazier is reported to have kicked the bucket and died roarin' "No Surrender."Even Ian Paisley died, blaming the IRA and Rome, shoutin', "Unrepentant Fenian Bastards."


Oddly enough all the political prisoners interned, both in Maghaberry and Portlaoise survived, because of the small windows, it is said and got out because the screws were nuked. Some Republicans in South Armagh and Newry survived because of the Mourne mountains. Gerry Adams died in agony, still denying he was ever in the IRA, while McGuinness was roasted alive, blathering on about being Irish or some sort of lies about being a republican. Most of the Blueshirts departed, with their arses on fire.


Sadly one of my favourite Songs, Galway Bay had to be re-written for the Ireland, now turned into a wasteland:


If you ever go across the sea to Ireland,
then maybe at the closing of your day,
you won't sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh,
Nor see the sun go down on Galway Bay.

Cannot hear again the ripple of the trout stream,
Nor women in the meadows making hay,
Nor sit beside a turf fire in a cabin,
or watch the barefoot gosoons as they play.

For the breezes blowing o'er the sea's from Ireland,
Are poisoned by nuked heather as they blow,
There's no women in the uplands diggin praties,
Speaking language that the strangers do not know.

For the Yankers came made Shannon
Tinker Airbase
Changed beautiful Ireland into a wasteland

Gombeens traded Shannon Airport in disgrace
In greedy, greasy sell out hands   
.

And if there's going to be be a life hereafter,
And faith somehow I'm sure there's going to be,
I'll ask Spirit to let me make my Heaven,
In that dear land across the Irish sea.


So there ye have it, I hope it is all a delusional nightmare or just a bad dream. Mind you it did have its wee moments, I must be very sick or have a tropical fever or somethin'.

Thursday, 23 January 2014

SHOOTIN JFK STEALIN SHANNON FREE MARGARETTA DARCY






Margaretta D'Arcy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaretta Ruth D'Arcy
Born1934
London
Known foractress, writer, playwright and activist
Margaretta Ruth D'Arcy (born 1934), an Irish actress, writer, playwright, and peace-activist.[1][2][3][4][5]Margaretta is a member of Aosdána since its inauguration and is known for addressing Irish nationalism, civil liberties, and women's rights in her work.[2][3] In 2014, she was imprisoned after she refused to sign a bond saying that she wouldn't trespass on non-public parts of Shannon Airport. Her arrest was a consequence of trespassing on airport property during protests over United States military stopovers at Shannon Airport.
Margaretta was born in London to a Russian Jewish mother and an Irish Catholic father.[1] D'Arcy worked in small theatres in Dublin from the age of fifteen and later became an actress.[6] Married in 1957 to English playwright and author John Arden, they frequently collaborated.[7] They settled in Galway and established the Galway Theatre Workshop in 1976.[6] The couple wrote a number of stage pieces and improvisational works for amateur and student players, including The Happy Haven (1960) and The Workhouse Donkey. She has written and produced many plays, including The Non-Stop Connolly Show.[2]
D'Arcy has also written a number of books, including Tell Them Everything, Awkward Corners (with John Arden), and Galway's Pirate Women: A Global Trawl.[8]

Activism[edit]

As an activist, in 1961, D'Arcy joined the anti-nuclear Committee of 100, led by Bertrand Russell.[2]
Jailed in the H-block in Northern Ireland, her book Tell Them Everything tells the story of her time during the H-block protests.[2]
D'Arcy also directed a film Yellow Gate Women, a film about the attempts by women of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp to outwit the British and United States Military at RAF Greenham Common with bolt cutters and legal challenges.[9]
Challenging censorship since 1987, she ran a women's kitchen pirate-radio from her home in Galway.[2]
In 2011, D’Arcy refused to stand for a minute’s silence in honour of catholic PSNI officer Ronan Kerr - who was murdered by dissident republican terrorists - at a meeting of the artists body Aosdana. Her actions were deliberate, she told media afterwards, which attracted fierce criticism of her perceived support for republican terrorism in Northern Ireland.[10]
Along with Niall Farrell, she was arrested in October 2012 for scaling the perimeter fence of Shannon Airport, in protest at the use of the airport as a stopover for US military flights.

Imprisonment[edit]

In January 2014, D'Arcy, who is 79 years-old and currently undergoing cancer treatment, was sentenced to three months in prison for the 2012 protest at Shannon. John Lannon of Shannonwatch called on President Michael D. Higgins, a friend of D'Arcy's family, to intervene in the case.[11] She was offered an opportunity to avoid prison if she signed a bond not to trespass on parts of Shannon Airport not open to the public but she refused.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has called for her release: “Successive governments have failed to inspect any planes in Shannon and have allowed the continued militarisation of a civilian airport. Rather than addressing these issues, the state has focused its efforts on arresting and jailing a 79-year-old woman."[12] Independent TD Clare Daly who along with Mick Wallace attended her trial also called for her release. Daly, at a protest rally in Dublin, said her behaviour in court was a model for activists.

Affiliations[edit]

Works[edit]

Books[edit]

Her books include;[8][13]

Plays[edit]

Her plays include;[13]
  • The Pinprick of History;
  • Vandaleur's Folly;
  • Women's Voices from W. of Ireland;
  • Prison-voice of Countess Markievicz;
  • A Suburban Suicide (a radio play, BBC3, 1995);
  • Lajwaad (The Good People, play by Abdel Kader Alloula, adapted by M. D'Arcy for readings in London, 1995);
  • Dublin (Irish Writers' Centre, 1996).
Plays devised as group productions include;[13]
  • Muggins is a Martyr;
  • The Vietnam War-game;
  • 200 Years of Labour;
  • The Mongrel Fox;
  • No Room at the Inn;
  • Mary's Name;
  • Seán O'Scrúdu;
  • Silence.
Plays written in collaboration with John Arden include;[13]
  • The Business of Good Government;
  • The Happy Haven;
  • Ars Longa Vita Brevis;
  • The Royal Pardon;
  • The Hero Rises Up;
  • The Ballygombeen Bequest;
  • The Non-Stop Connolly Show;
  • Keep the People Moving (BBC Radio);
  • Portrait of a Rebel (RTÉ Television);
  • The Manchester Enthusiasts (BBC 1984 and RTÉ 1984, under the title The Ralahine Experiment);
  • Whose is the Kingdom? (9-part radio play, BBC 1987).

Films[edit]

Films as a director and those produced by Women in Media & Entertainment;[13]
  • Yellow Gate Women, 2007, shown at the 'Galway Film Fleadh' and Independent International Video & Film Festival (New York) [2008].[14]
  • Shell Hell, co-directed by Finn Arden, 2005, shown at Galway Arts Festival, the 'Stranger than Fiction Festival' at the IFC (Dublin) and the Human Rights Documentary Festival (Glasgow).
  • Big Plane, Small Axe, the mis-trials of Mary Kelly, 2005, awarded 2nd Prize for Best Feature Documentary at Galway Film Fleadh, and also shown at Cork Film Festival, Portobello Film Festival, Human Rights Documentary Festival (Glasgow), and the 'Irish Film Festival' (San Francisco).
  • Circus Exposé, 1987 (60 minutes), shown at the 'Celtic Film Festival' (Inverness) and 'Foyle Festival' (Derry).

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b "Margaretta D'Arcy (born 1934)", searcs-web.com, retrieved 4 October 2010
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f "Filmmaker: Margaretta D'Arcy", reframecollection.org, retrieved 4 October 2010
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b "Margaretta D'Arcy postcard to Bernard McKenna", udel.edu, 1995, retrieved 4 October 2010
  4. Jump up^ "John Arden", nndb.com, retrieved 4 October 2010
  5. Jump up^ "John Arden", 4-wall.com, retrieved 4 October 2010
  6. ^ Jump up to:a b (Bourke 2002, p. 1287)
  7. Jump up^ "Interview with John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy by Raymond H. Thompson", rochester.edu, retrieved 4 October 2010
  8. ^ Jump up to:a b "Loose Theatre: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Theatre Activist", feministbook.blogspot.com, retrieved 4 October 2010
  9. Jump up^ "Yellow Gate Women", reframecollection.org, retrieved 4 October 2010
  10. Jump up^ Griffin, Sam (22 January 2014). "Margaretta D'Arcy a constant thorn in side of lawmakers". Irish Independent. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  11. Jump up^ "79-year-old jailed for three months over Shannon protest", thejournal.ie, retrieved 17 January 2014
  12. Jump up^ Gerry Adams calls for release of Margaretta D’Arcy, Sinn Féin, retrieved 19 January 2014
  13. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e "Margaretta D'Arcy", irishwriters-online.com, retrieved 4 October 2010
  14. Jump up^ "Irish Documentary in New York Festival", filmireland.net, retrieved 4 October 2010

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